Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis of Assisi

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

Francis of Assisi

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

Francis of Assisi

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

Francis Collins

Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

Francis Chan

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Francis Chan

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

Francis Chan

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

Francis Asbury

We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

Francis Bacon

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

Ernest Holmes

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

Ernest Holmes

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.

Florence King

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Fisher Stevens

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Henry Martyn

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

Henry Miller

Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

Cat Stevens

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Catharine Beecher

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...

George Eliot

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

George Eliot

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

Prayer is not complicated, but we make it that way,

Our thoughts and prayers go out to them, ... It's a sad situation for everybody.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Coach,

Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. This is a sad day for the Tiger-Cats family.

Our thoughts and prayers are with her family.

This is a tragic situation. I don't know all the details. Our prayers are with the family.

Janet Fitch

How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its teeth were bad, its hair gray and unkempt. While beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Janet Fitch

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Ernest Renan

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

Christopher Hitchens

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating,

Mohamed Atta

Oh, God, open all doors for me. Oh God who answers prayers and answers those who ask you, I am asking you for your help. I am asking you for forgiveness. I am asking you to lighten my way. I am asking you to lift the burden I feel. Oh God, you who open all doors, please open all doors for me, open all venues for me, open all avenues for me. God, I trust in you. God, I lay myself in your hands.... There is no God but God, I being a sinner. We are of God, and to God we return.

Mo Yan

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

Fred Hoiberg

All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest.